Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been one of the strongest proponents of the COVID-19 vaccine. Recently, the legendary big man went off on Kyrie Irving and the Brooklyn Nets star's unwillingness to get vaccinated. This time around, Kareem has set his sights on Washington Wizards stud Bradley Beal and Andrew Wiggins of the Golden State Warriors.

Aside from Kyrie, Beal is another NBA superstar that has raised his concerns about the vaccine. Kareem quoted Beal for stating that the vaccine “doesn't eliminate anybody from getting COVID.” The Hall of Famer used this as a jumping point for his all-out tirade:

“Next time you have a serious infection, don’t take the anti-biotics the doctor prescribes because they don’t work 100 percent of the time,” Kareem wrote. “And when you’re playing basketball, don’t shoot the ball unless you score 100 percent of the time. Also, that question has been answered a thousand times by experts.”

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Kareem Adbul-Jabbar did not mince words. He had the same sentiments for Wiggins, too, who himself earlier said that he wants to “just keep fighting for what I believe… what’s right to one person isn’t right to the other.” Kareem could not disagree any more:

“Trying to make this a matter of principle would be fine, if there was a rational principle involved,” he wrote. “It’s not being forced to be vaccinated, since no one is forcing you. If you are so righteously committed to the principle, then don’t play professional basketball. Stand firm on that principle. Unless money trumps principle… The problem with that vague philosophy is that the rest of us pay for those sloppy thinkers because they are the ones clogging our hospitals, crushing our economy, and keeping us from our loved ones.”

Needless to say, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is not happy with all the anti-vax sentiments going around in the NBA. He isn't afraid to speak his mind either, and he even went as far as having to single out the specific players who are against the vaccine. Kareem is definitely going to get a lot of stick for this from anti-vaxxers/pro-choice individuals, but it looks like he couldn't care any less.